OK, so a while back, I bought a "NEW" but apparently not "RECENT" Glock 42 on GunBroker. Paid by check, took forever, but it got here. (On a side note, met a cool guy that's an FFL that works about 400 yards from my office.....)
Took it and fired it and didn't have any complaints. Took my wife out to shoot it and she had a bunch of feed failures and some stove pipes. We only had about 200 rounds with us, and 4 mags. She'd have a couple problems, then I'd burn through 4 full mags quickly without any issue. I thought she was maybe limp wristing, but she shoots my 43 without any issue, even though she's "jittery".
So I decided to get a hold of Glock. They responded the same day with return shipping instructions. Great. I shipped on a Wed, they got it on a Friday. The following Monday, I got a FedEx notification and a box showed up the following Wednesday. Super fast!
Inside the box is my pistol. Two mags were replaced with the current revision (03), and there was a sheet with a laundry list of replaced parts, but no actual verbiage of what was done. (I'll post that below). So I emailed back and asked if I was to assume that all those parts were replaced. Guy got back a day or two later and said that yes, everything on that list was replaced. They test fired 36 rounds of varying brands/types of ammo with no issue.
OK cool. Took it to a range and put a box through it, worked great. Then a work buddy asked me if he could borrow it to demo for his wife. She had groped one in a store and was thinking of buying one, so I said sure. They took it to a range and both had all kinds of problems with it apparently. I don't know that she has shot much, but he's an experienced shooter.
So I brought it back home and messed around with it a bit this evening. Apparently, anyone but me who touches this gun has a problem with it. Sure enough, though, I can get it to hang just racking the slide in the basement.
When it's hung, it's almost as if the ass end is high and the nose is down. However, it's not stuck on the feed ramp. The barrel still wiggles without the cartridge moving, so it hasn't reached it yet.
Some other observations maybe worth noting: I didn't know this until now, but this was apparently new old stock. Test cartridge date is Oct 2014.
I'm using Pearce +1 extensions but did NOT send them back to Glock that way.
I've seen this issue with the original slide release lever, as well as the Vickers extended slide release lever.
I watched a YouTube vid where a guy was talking about being able to wiggle the mag back and forth while it's in there, and he's totally right.
You can do that with this one, but I haven't tried his tape trick and probably won't. If I need tape to make this thing work, it's not for me.
Anyway, so I guess I'll get a hold of Glock and probably send this back again unless anyone else has a home remedy.
Oh yeah, and here are the parts replaced in Georgia:
33564 - Connector
33188 - Slide cover plate
33272 - Slide stop lever
33218 - Trigger housing
33206 - Trigger with bar
Mags
Took it and fired it and didn't have any complaints. Took my wife out to shoot it and she had a bunch of feed failures and some stove pipes. We only had about 200 rounds with us, and 4 mags. She'd have a couple problems, then I'd burn through 4 full mags quickly without any issue. I thought she was maybe limp wristing, but she shoots my 43 without any issue, even though she's "jittery".
So I decided to get a hold of Glock. They responded the same day with return shipping instructions. Great. I shipped on a Wed, they got it on a Friday. The following Monday, I got a FedEx notification and a box showed up the following Wednesday. Super fast!
Inside the box is my pistol. Two mags were replaced with the current revision (03), and there was a sheet with a laundry list of replaced parts, but no actual verbiage of what was done. (I'll post that below). So I emailed back and asked if I was to assume that all those parts were replaced. Guy got back a day or two later and said that yes, everything on that list was replaced. They test fired 36 rounds of varying brands/types of ammo with no issue.
OK cool. Took it to a range and put a box through it, worked great. Then a work buddy asked me if he could borrow it to demo for his wife. She had groped one in a store and was thinking of buying one, so I said sure. They took it to a range and both had all kinds of problems with it apparently. I don't know that she has shot much, but he's an experienced shooter.
So I brought it back home and messed around with it a bit this evening. Apparently, anyone but me who touches this gun has a problem with it. Sure enough, though, I can get it to hang just racking the slide in the basement.
When it's hung, it's almost as if the ass end is high and the nose is down. However, it's not stuck on the feed ramp. The barrel still wiggles without the cartridge moving, so it hasn't reached it yet.
Some other observations maybe worth noting: I didn't know this until now, but this was apparently new old stock. Test cartridge date is Oct 2014.
I'm using Pearce +1 extensions but did NOT send them back to Glock that way.
I've seen this issue with the original slide release lever, as well as the Vickers extended slide release lever.
I watched a YouTube vid where a guy was talking about being able to wiggle the mag back and forth while it's in there, and he's totally right.
Anyway, so I guess I'll get a hold of Glock and probably send this back again unless anyone else has a home remedy.
Oh yeah, and here are the parts replaced in Georgia:
33564 - Connector
33188 - Slide cover plate
33272 - Slide stop lever
33218 - Trigger housing
33206 - Trigger with bar
Mags